Cigarette manufacturing machine
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving at least one bead of tobacco, wherein two superimposed, mutually contacting disks with respective serrated outer edges are rotated about a common axis at different peripheral speeds to shave the bead of tobacco fed against the disks.
Claims14
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means for feeding at least one bead of tobacco along a given path;
- and at least one shaving device located along said path to shave said bead, and which in turn comprises two shaving disks, each parallel to said path and mounted to rotate about a respective axis crosswise to said path;
- wherein said two shaving disks comprise respective serrated outer edges having a superimposed portion interfering with said bead along said path, and comprising respective succession of teeth;
- said shaving device also comprising actuating means for imparting to said two shaving disks a relative speed with respect to each other to “scissor” cut the bead.
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means for feeding at least one bead of tobacco along a given path;
- and at least one shaving device located along said path to shave said bead, and which in turn comprises two shaving disks, each parallel to said path and mounted to rotate about a respective axis crosswise to said path;
- wherein said two shaving disks comprise respective serrated outer edges having a superimposed portion interfering with said bead along said path;
- said shaving device also comprising actuating means for imparting to said two shaving disks a relative speed with respect to each other;
- said two shaving disks being mounted coaxial with each other to rotate about a single axis crosswise to said path.
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means for feeding at least one bead of tobacco along a given path;
- and at least one shaving device located along said path to shave said bead, and which in turn comprises two shaving disks, each parallel to said path and mounted to rotate about a respective axis crosswise to said path;
- wherein said two shaving disks comprise respective serrated outer edges having a superimposed portion interfering with said bead along said path;
- said shaving device also comprising actuating means for imparting to said two shaving disks a relative speed with respect to each other;
- said supply means comprise two parallel conveyors, each for feeding a respective said bead along a respective said path;
- said shaving device being located between said two conveyors to shave both said beads.
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means for feeding at least one bead of tobacco along a given path;
- and at least one shaving device located along said path to shave said bead, and which in turn comprises two shaving disks, each parallel to said path and mounted to rotate about a respective axis crosswise to said path;
- wherein said two shaving disks comprise respective serrated outer edges having a superimposed portion interfering with said bead along said path, and comprising respective succession of teeth;
- said shaving device also comprising actuating means for imparting to said two shaving disks a relative speed with respect to each other to “scissor” cut the bead;
- said shaving disks being mounted one over and substantially contacting the other;
- the edge of one disk being contained within the edge of the other disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.